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MESSAGE  OF  TH  R  rilESIDENT. 


Ricii.MOM),  \  A.,  Juiiiuiry  Id,  181)3. 
To  Ike  Stnalc  and  lloi'sc  of  Representatives  : 

I  herewith  transmit  a  coinmunicatiou  IVoiii  the  iSccrctar}'  of  the 
Treasury,  covering  certain  estimates. 

J  recommend  that  an  appropriation  be  made  of  the  amount,  and  lor 
the  purpose  specified. 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 


LETTER  OF  THE  SECRETARY  01-   THE  TREASURY 


Tni-.Asiitv  Dr.p.vKT.Mi.NT,  C.  S.  A..  ) 
Richmond,  Jan.  12,  lyG^.       ) 

To  the  Freaidtnt  : 

Sir:  I  have  the  lionor  to  enclose  herewith  an  estimate,  (in  dupli- 
cate.) to  be  submitted  to  Congress,  of  the  amount  letjuired  for  the 
telegraphic  service  in  the  Confederate  States,  to  the  3()th  June,  1863, 
inclusive.  The  material  on  uhich  it  is  based  Avas  not  submitted  in 
time  for  it  to  be  included  in  the  general  estimates. 

T  am,  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

* 

C.  G.  :MKMMIXr.ER. 

Secretary  vf  the  Treaauri/. 


rSTA'rj:,MEXT  OF    THK  POiSTMASTEK    GENERAL 


PoSTOFFICE  DePARTMEM,  } 

January  8tli,  186 3.       i 
Hon.  0.  0.  Me:.i.\iim;ek, 

Seirciary  of  the  Trca.sur)/  : 
Sir: — I  have  the  honor  herewith  to  submit  a  statement  of  the 
amount  of  rcccipcs  and  expenditures,  on  account  of  military  telegrapli 
lines,  from  June  1st,  18GI,  to  September  1st,  1862,  together  with  an 
estimate  of  the  amount  reciuired  for  constructing,  repairing  and  oper- 
ating military  telegraph  lines  to  June  Slith,  1863. 

IIXPENDITLRES. 

Amount  cxponued  for  constructing  and   repairing  from 

June  1st,  1861,  to  September  1st.  1862, 
Amount  paid  salaries  to  superintendent,  operators  and 

■watchmen. 
Amount  paid  operators  out  of  receipts. 
Amount  paid  for  incidental  expenses, 

Making, 

ni:ci:iPTS. 
Ev  amount  appropri;ited  under  act  approved  May  21st, 

*^18G1, 
liy  amount  appropriated  December  21tli,  1861, 
]iy  amount  appropriated  April  ;;d,  18G2, 
])y  amount  of  recoi})ts from  olilcos  to  September  Ist,  1862, 
]]y  amount  of  cancelled  warrants, 

Makin-i*, 
Leaving  to  the  credit  of  the  appropriations, 

I  have  no  report  of  the  amount  of  expenditures  since  the  1st  Sep- 
tember last,  the  date  at  "which  AVm.  S.  ^lorris  was  appointed  agent 
and  charged  with  the  management  of  the  telegraph  lines.  And  I 
liavc  to  make  a  merely  arbitrary  estimate  for  the  expenditures  on 
account  of  telegraph  lines  from  that  date  to  the  30th  of  Juno  next. 
To  cover  the  probable  expenditures  on  existing  lines,  and  for  build- 
ing and  repairing  lines,  I  request  the  appropriation  of  fift}'  thousand 
dollars  (So(l,()()U  (lO.) 

This  amount  will  not  all  be  expended  unless  the  exigencies  of  the 
war  should  require  the  construction  and  use  of  additional  lines  of 
telegrapli. 

I  am,  sir,  with  high  respect, 

I'our  obedient  servant, 

JOHN  H.  REAGAN,  P.  M,  General. 


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AX  IISTIMATE  OF  THE  AMOUNT  required  for  compensation  of 
agents,  cost  of  materials,  and  constriicttnii,  repairing  and  operating  tele- 
graph lines. 

For  compensation  of  agents,  cost  of  materials,   and  con- 
structing, repairing  and  operating  telegraph  lines,         $o(),(K;0  00 

llOBERT  TYLER, 

Regider  of  the  Treasury. 

Tre.V!?urv  1)k!'artmi:nt.       } 
]{)i.ui»TER'ii  Office,  Jan.  12,  Ibii'o.  i 


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